I am 83 years old and have had fibromyalgia and IBS for thirty years. About two months ago I started having allodynia. That is a condition where my skin burns every day of my life. The only thing that gives me relief is to take Zanax. It lasts for about three hours and then my skin starts burning again. It makes me nervous and jittery and makes my blood pressure go up too high even though I am on BP medicine 3 times a day. I am going to a neurologist and he has had an MRI done on my Cervical spine and I have spurs on 3 of my disks. Does anyone else have this problem and if you do what do you take for relief. He has mentioned Lyrica. I have tried 30mg of Amitriptyline for 8 weeks and it did not help one bit so I am weaning off it.